Æ36 - Maximinus ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΠΡΕΙΜΟΥ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Nysa-Scythopolis sat in the Maeander valley of Lydia and ranked among the more prosperous cities of the Ephesian conventus, its civic coinage peaking precisely in the Severan and immediately post-Severan decades. The magistrate name ΠΡΕΙΜΟΣ (Primus) appearing in the obverse legend helps anchor this piece to local administrative records, though the individual himself remains otherwise unattested in surviving inscriptions. Maximinus Thrax never visited the eastern provinces during his three-year reign — he spent it almost entirely on the Rhine and Danube frontiers — making these Asian civic bronzes the primary visual medium through which his image reached the Greek-speaking world.